Barack Obama actually said...

I think that, as I said yesterday, his biggest failure was not to criticize America, because I think there has always been a tradition of patriotism through dissent.

Context

Obama discusses the importance of dissent in patriotism and critiques Reverend Wright's approach.

03/18/2008

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